Colmenar Viejo
Colmenar Viejo is a toun an municipality o aboot 44,000 inhabitants, locatit in the Commonty o Madrid, Spain, 30 kilometres north o Madrid on the M-607 motorwey. It belangs tae the comarca o Cuenca Alta del Manzanares.
Colmenar Viejo | |
|---|---|
 Hermitage o Santa Ana. | |
 Coat airms | |
  Colmenar Viejo Location in Spain | |
| Coordinates: 40°39′32″N 3°45′57″W / 40.65889°N 3.76583°W | |
| Kintra |  Spain |
| Commonty | Commonty o Madrid |
| Province | Madrid |
| Comarca | Comarca Alta del Manzanares |
| Govrenment | |
| • Mayor | Miguel Ángel Santamaría Novoa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 182.6 km2 (70.5 sq mi) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 44,427 |
| • Density | 240/km2 (630/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Colmenareños |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 28770 |
Main sichts
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The maist important tourist attractions places in Colmenar Viejo are:
- Basilica de Nuestra Señora de la Asunción
- Ermita de Remedios, saunt o the toun
- Visigothic airchaeological tombs
Festivities
eedit- Fiesta de la Vaquilla, 2 Februar
- Fiesta de la Maya, 2 Mey
- Festivities in honour o the Virgen o Remedios, last weekend o August
- Day o Colmenar Viejo, commemoratin the veelages endorsement bi Ferdinand II o Aragon, 22 November
Twin touns
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Freemit airtins
eedit| Wikimedia Commons haes media relatit tae Colmenar Viejo. |
- Offeecial wabsteid Archived 2012-12-08 at Archive.today (in Spaingie)
- Colmenar Viejo in the 1785 map of New Castile Archived 2008-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
- Colmenar Viejo bird eye